Every building has a personality and the rooftop is one of its main features. This means that the roof can be very important ...

Caught between federal flood guidelines and local height restrictions, an emotional debate is stirring over the shape of roofs in the Hamptons. The controversy spawned a lawsuit in the village of ...

Our latest Dezeen guide explores seven types of roofs, including hip roofs, sawtooth roofs and vaulted roofs. At their most basic, roofs are a cover to protect a building against the weather. While ...

Roof tiles made of fired clay are key elements of traditional Korean architecture. They not only protected wooden structures from the weather; they also carried aesthetic value and symbolic meaning.

Architect Shigeru Ban builds churches, houses and pavilions out of paper and bamboo. These are traditional materials of Japanese architecture, but they are anomalous in the modern world of concrete, ...

Step into the world of Okinawan architecture, where terra-cotta tiled roofs, open-air layouts, and the iconic Shisa guardians tell stories of tradition, spirituality, and resilience. Blending Ryukyuan ...

imprinted its view of prehistoric suburbia on many a mind. at the "iconic architectural setting" and its designer, Ed Benedict, who also designed the characters in the show: Benedict dreamt up the ...

A contractor gave us a bid to replace our roof using something called architectural shingles instead of what the roof has now, three-tab shingles. Is that good advice? Yes. Architectural shingles are ...

SOUTH BEND — It is a bit of a fixer-upper, but it has good bones for a 204-year-old house. The Navarre Cabin has been moved several times, vandalized and rebuilt. It was the site of Cabin Days when ...

Home at 2 Collins Avenue Friday August 7, 2015 in Troy, NY. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union) Second Empire architecture is a lesson in perspective, a reminder that what we now look upon as ...